bulletnoun詞源 1/ˈbʊlɪt/

• 1

  A projectile, usually of metal, shot from a gun at high speed.

• 2

  informalAn entire round of unfired ammunition for a firearm, including the projectile, the cartridge casing, the propellant charge, etc.

• 3

  Ammunition for a sling or slingshot which has been manufactured for such use.

  • Then when our powers in points of ſwords are ioin’d / And cloſde in compaſſe of the killing bullet, / Though ſtraite the paſſage and the port be made, / That leads to Pallace of my brothers life, / Proud is his fortune if we pierce it not.
• 4

  mediapublishingtypographyA printed symbol in the form of a solid circle ⟨•⟩, often used to mark items in a list.

• 5

  bankingbusinessfinanceA large scheduled repayment of the principal of a loan; a balloon payment.

• 6

  A rejection letter, as for employment, admission to a school or a competition.

  • John's not going to any of his top schools; he got a bullet from the last of them yesterday.
• 7

  slangOne year of prison time.

  • G.T.A. I got sentenced to a bullet, did six months at fire camp and got a modification.
• 8

  slangAn ace (the playing card).

  • The miser, a-seeking lost gelt, / The doughboy, awaiting the battle, / May possibly know how I felt / While the long years dragged by as the dealer / As slow as the slowest of dubs, / Stuck out the last helping of tickets / 'Till I lifted—the Bullet of Clubs!

bulletverb詞源 1/ˈbʊlɪt/

• 1

  informalTo draw attention to (text) by, or as if by, placing a graphic bullet in front of it.

  • For instance, in the article on Tim Berners-Lee, we have bulleted "World Wide Web"
  • The author has bulleted this section to make it easier to read and included important notes and warnings.
• 2

  informalTo speed, like a bullet.

  • Their debut started slow, but bulleted to number six in its fourth week.
  • After a little pause, during which the train bulleted through the tunnel, he said, “Poor man,” referring to his late father.
• 3

  informalTo make a shot, especially with great speed.

  • He bulleted a header for his first score of the season.
• 4

  rareslangTo inflict bullet shots upon.

  • They got bro-bro stuck on the wing, cah I picked up and bullet him
• 5

  slangTo fire from a job; to dismiss.

  • Mowbray never had that luxury, he was bulleted after a run of bad results just as Kenny Dalglish was at Liverpool last season.

bulletnoun詞源 2

• 1

  rareA young or little bull; a male calf.

  • —Chicago boasts of a citizen of fine discrimination and delicacy, who, riding in the suburbs with his best girl, passed a stable in the door of which stood a couple of calves. "See," said the young lady, "those two cute little cowlets." "Those are not cowlets, Araminta; they are bullets."
  • “I am not sure a compilation of odds and ends should be called a ‘book.’ Perhaps ‘booklet’ would be the better designation. My daughter, when quite young, once spoke of a heifer calf she saw grazing on the rim of the road as a ‘cowlet.’ In reality, the wayside animal was a ‘bullet.’ Though this book, or booklet, isn’t even calf-bound, the analogy should have been close enough to make me wary of jumping to a conclusion. However, it is too late now.

這個拼法也被記錄為下列字的變化形：

• bullet chess
• bullet vibrator